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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783961003321

Autore

Zahniser Keith A. <1964->

Titolo

Steel City gospel [[electronic resource] ] : Protestant laity and reform in Progressive-Era Pittsburgh / / Keith A. Zahniser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2005

ISBN

1-135-87844-7

1-280-28212-6

9786610282128

0-203-49683-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Religion in history, society & culture

Disciplina

280/.4/097488609041

Soggetti

Protestant churches - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - History - 20th century

Christianity and politics - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - History - 20th century

Church and social problems - Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh - History - 20th century

Christianity and politics - Protestant churches - History - 20th century

Church and social problems - Protestant churches - History - 20th century

Pittsburgh (Pa.) Church history 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-266) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Steel City Gospel; CopyrightPage; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One.Pittsburgh Protestant Churches and Early Progressive Reform in the Steel City; Chapter Two.Pittsburgh's Activist Laity: Agents of the Moral Reform Discourse; Chapter Three.Pittsburgh Reformers and the Search for Moral Government; Chapter Four.Graft, Vice, and the Reform of Pittsburgh's Government; Chapter Five.Back to the Churches: the Christian Social Service Union and the Reclamation of the Moral Reform Discourse; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Demonstrating the power religious language, ideas, and institutions had in shaping progressive reform in Pittsburgh, this cross-disciplinary



study addresses significant debates in the fields of Progressive-Era political history and American religious history, while telling the story of an industrial city in a crucial era of change.